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The head of the JIT Wajid Zia arrives at the Supreme Court to present a final report of the investigation probing allegations of money laundering against then prime minister Nawaz Sharif and his family. —AFP/File

ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has sought from the Supreme Court three complete certified copies of the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) report in the Panama Papers case that led to the disqualification of Nawaz Sharif as prime minister.

“Please furnish complete set of JIT report along with annexure for filing of the references before the accountability court,” an application submitted to the court by NAB on Friday said.

According to sources, one certified copy of the first nine volumes of the report was provided in response to a similar request made earlier by NAB, while Volume 10 was withheld.

But the bureau needed at least four certified and complete copies to finalise the references against the prime minister, his children and Finance Minister Ishaq Dar in accordance with the Supreme Court verdict, the sources said.

The Volume 10 of the report, which contains details of mutual legal assistance (MLA) with various countries, has not been made public by the Supreme Court on the request of the six-member JIT’s chairman Wajid Zia.

Complete copies needed to file references, SC informed

A three-judge JIT implementation bench, headed by Justice Ejaz Afzal Khan, had allowed Advocate Khawaja Haris Ahmed, who represented Nawaz Sharif, to go through two pages of the volume.

According to the summary of the report, the volume consists of MLA requests initiated by the JIT chairman under Section 21 of the National Accountability Ordinance 1999.

The MLA requests were made to the attorney general of British Virgin Islands, the United Kingdom Central Authority, interior ministry of Saudi Arabia, justice ministry of the United Arab Emirates, Central Authority of Switzerland and prosecutor general of Luxembourg.

Disqualifying Mr Sharif under Article 62(1)( f) of the Constitution, a five-judge bench in its July 28 judgement asked NAB to file four references before the Rawalpindi accountability court within six weeks on the basis of the material collected and referred to by the JIT as well as that already available with the Federal Investigation Agency and NAB.

According to the court order, NAB has to file a reference against Mr Sharif; his children Maryam Safdar and Hussain and Hassan Nawaz; and son-in-law retired Capt Muhammad Safdar relating to four upscale Avenfield flats in London.

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Khawaja

Aug 12, 2017 08:09am

And NS is saying he is innocent

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Ahsan Gul

Aug 12, 2017 08:16am

Good work NAB. Accountability should be beyond personal prejudice and dislike. Regardless of personal status all should be ready to provide proof of their income and expenditures.
Pakistan had a long history where dictators and PMs have enjoyed lavish life styles at the expense of poor and ignorant Pakistani people.

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Sab se pehle pakistan

Aug 12, 2017 08:27am

Honourable Supreme Court needs to monitor NAB proceedings as history suggests that it has always been in favour of PML-N.

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Abbas

Aug 12, 2017 08:41am

Good for Innocent NS ... Things ought to be clear for reaching to its logical conclusion.

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Innocent Lion

Aug 12, 2017 08:41am

NS is innocent. He doesn't know what is happening with him. Simple.

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Azam

Aug 12, 2017 08:51am

Beautiful. Long live SC, long live Pakistan

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Random

Aug 12, 2017 08:52am

This looks interesting. If the Supreme Court does not give volume 10, which it already declined too, then the case will be done and dusted letting them go off the hook. It is suspicious that all other volumes are provided to NAB besides volume 10. Maybe they have undisclosed sources that don't have for the corruption case against the Sharifs. I wonder 'how in the world did the JIT get information from the British virgin Islands when even intelligence agencies of America can not?

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Sab se pehle pakistan

Aug 12, 2017 08:53am

PML-N is completely exposed infront of the public. In addition this flop show of strength by PML-N will further damage the already lost image.

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Muhammad

Aug 12, 2017 09:04am

I'm glad accountability has started from top. Now it's time to bring Zardari and his cronies to books. Accountability should be across the board..

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excalibur

Aug 12, 2017 09:04am

Delay tactics by NAB

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Zubair

Aug 12, 2017 09:17am

@Innocent Lion haha..you are right...ppl are also innocent, they do not know what this innocent man has done to them..

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Mohsin

Aug 12, 2017 09:23am

All relevant documents should be handed over to the investigators if they're to do their job properly. Besides the people have a right to know the contents of that mysterious volume 10. This is democracy isn't it?

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Leena

Aug 12, 2017 09:23am

Thanks God I am not innocent.

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Saad

Aug 12, 2017 10:30am

An excellent move to make volume 10 public :D
NS will soon find out why he was ousted if he hasn't figured out yet. And the pajama of iqama to sentence for panama will also pe pulled away...
People may not like what they see...
Thank you Raheel Sharif...

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Tayyab

Aug 12, 2017 10:33am

Why it took NAB almost 2 weeks to realize that they are still missing volume 10 from the required documents to file references. It bodes ill for the kind of prosecution that will be presented before the Accountability Court.

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Mahmood

Aug 12, 2017 10:44am

Interesting! Why was this volume not released to the Supreme Court, we wonder??

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ARSHAD ,Canada

Aug 12, 2017 10:51am

@Khawaja, Not guilty unless proven otherwise.

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Anti-Corruption_Pakistani

Aug 12, 2017 11:01am

In my view, NAB is deliberately delaying the charges against Nawaz Sharif and his family, the chairman of the NAB is one of many hand picked cronies of Nawaz Sharif. Until we get rid of dirt from our institutions, we ate unlikely to have fair trials and justice. Very sad and our higher courts should take notice of this IMMEDIATELY!

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Zafar Ahmed

Aug 12, 2017 11:28am

MNS & family never requested SC to open Vol-10 for one or other reason but why NAB chief requesting for it.

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Ridiculous

Aug 12, 2017 12:10pm

They will be more than happy to provide all kinds of papers as the order is to get the man out of the way permanently.

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ihtajaj

Aug 12, 2017 12:12pm

@Muhammad even common man involved in corruption should be brought to book. No selective accountability.

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Commotion

Aug 12, 2017 12:18pm

@Leena this is the end of the innocence.

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Umar Aftab

Aug 12, 2017 12:52pm

Why is a case of money laundering not being initiated? Where are the Anti Money Landering laws and institutions of Pakistan?

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Nushtai deewar

Aug 12, 2017 01:24pm

@Umar Aftab because it has not been proven uptil yet, my innocent dude.

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NACParis

Aug 12, 2017 03:50pm

@Sab se pehle pakistan Let court release the certified copies and make all public as a gift to people of Pakistan on independence day. This will also educate Nawaz why he was not disqualified under major charges.